School Violence and the Effects of Bullying

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School Violence and the Effects of Bullying

• By Adrienne Naylor

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What Does Society See

• Definition Activity
• What does society see as a bully?
• Why do kids kill?
• What are schools doing now about bullying and
  school violence?

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Real Life Situations

• Columbine High School 1999
• Shooters caught on school camera to the right.
• Harris Firearms on bottom left.
• Klebolds Firearms on bottom right

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Didnt start or end with Columbine

• On December 1, 1997, then 15-year old Missy
  Jenkins was seriously wounded in the shooting at
  Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky,
  which resulted in three students' deaths.
• In August 2006, a man in Essex, Vt., who was
  looking for his ex-girlfriend, shot two teachers
  and killed one of them.
• Ten elementary pupils were shot, five of them
  killed, in an Amish school in Nickel Mines,
  Lancaster County, on Oct. 2006.
• Two high school students were charged with
  conspiracy to commit capital murder after
  authorities uncovered what they described as
  potentially deadly school attack plot Oct. 2006.

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Some Websites and Hotlines to check out

• Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
• http//www.reason.org/ps234.html
• Keep Schools Safe
• http//www.keepschoolssafe.org/
• National Youth Violence Prevention Resource
  Center
• http//www.safeyouth.org/scripts/topics/school.asp
  
• S.A.V.E. Program for Students
• http//www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7986.html
  
• Hotline for students
• Call 1-866-SPEAK-UP.
• That's 1-866-773-2587.

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What should society be doing to eliminate school
violence?

• -Writing Reflection